BONUS EPISODE PREVIEW: The Underground Bunker w/ Tony Ortega

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive Bonus episode, you can hear the episode in its entirety by becoming a member at: https://www.patreon.com/indoctrination Tony Ortega is a journalist and former editor of The Village Voice. He is of course best known for his daily blog about the Church of Scientology called The Underground Bunker and is one of the most prominent and influential journalists to cover Scientology which he has been doing since 1995. Tony is also the author of The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, about journalist Paulette Cooper and the Church of Scientology's attempts to silence her after her own book was published. He continues to monitor breaking developments in Scientology around the world from an undisclosed location, publishing a new article every day, and remains one of Scientology's favorite targets for harassment. Tony joins Rachel to discuss Scientology's latest controversies, his legendary work on The Underground Bunker, and the future of the dwindling authoritarian organization. Together, Rachel and Tony examine the harassment tactics Scientology employs against critics, which they have both experienced personally, and lament the forced separation so many families have suffered at the hand of Scientology. Find all of Tony's articles and links to his books here: https://tonyortega.org Thanks so much to our Patrons for making this episode possible! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Thanks for tuning in to our bonus episode preview.
0:10.2	This is just a short sample of this week's exclusive Patreon episode.
0:15.9	You can hear the episode in its entirety by becoming a member at patreon.com slash indoctrination, where you'll gain
0:24.4	access to all of our exclusive episodes and merchandise.
0:34.9	It is my absolute pleasure to have Tony Ortega back on the show. It's been a long time. This is going to be for a bonus episode. This is the back by popular demand series of the show. And, you know, I know that people who do the work that you do sometimes find it to be a thankless job.
0:57.6	And ultimately, you're not doing it for thanks anyway, but still, sometimes your life is made more
1:03.6	whole by it because people really appreciate the work.
1:06.1	And sometimes your life is made more difficult by it.
1:09.5	But regardless, I think in order for you to continue
1:13.0	doing what you're doing, you're saying, I can't, I can't sort of listen to the noise. I have to be
1:17.5	very focused on why I'm doing this, why this matters to me, and that it's beyond me. It's not
1:23.4	just for me. It's for all these other people. And also just for getting information out there.
1:28.9	So if we can start, just in case people didn't hear the first episode and want to know about
1:33.5	what you're doing, if you can describe that. And then I'd love for you to update me on some of the
1:38.0	latest that you have been tapping into. Well, thank you, Rachel. Years ago, I set myself this
1:44.1	strange goal of every morning at 7 a.m.
1:47.6	Eastern trying to put something on my website that my readers, who include longtime former Scientologists and
1:57.2	real experts in the field, bring them something every morning at 7 a.m. that they have not seen.
2:02.9	I mean, it's a very simple goal, but it's actually very challenging because this is a very knowledgeable group of folks.
2:09.5	So it can be breaking news. It can be court news.
2:12.8	Or we could be looking in the past and getting a new perspective on something that happened in Scientology's past.
2:18.1	But a lot of times Scientologists ask me, why are you so interested you were never in?
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